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Ordinary magic. Resilience processes in development.
  • A. Masten
  • Psychology
    The American psychologist
  • 1 March 2001
TLDR
An examination of converging findings from variable-focused and person-focused investigations of resilience suggests that resilience is common and that it usually arises from the normative functions of human adaptational systems, with the greatest threats to human development being those that compromise these protective systems.
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The development of competence in favorable and unfavorable environments. Lessons from research on successful children.
TLDR
Signals are drawn from studies of naturally occurring resilience among children at risk because of disadvantage or trauma and also from efforts to deliberately alter the course of competence through early childhood education and preventive interventions.
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Resilience in developing systems: Progress and promise as the fourth wave rises
  • A. Masten
  • Psychology
    Development and Psychopathology
  • 1 June 2007
Perspectives based on the first three waves of resilience research are discussed with the goal of informing the fourth wave of work, which is characterized by a focus on multilevel analysis and the…
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Ordinary Magic: Resilience in Development
I. Introduction and Conceptual Overview 1. Introduction 2. Models of Resilience II. Studies of Individual Resilience 3. Resilience in a Community Sample: The Project Competence Longitudinal Study 4.…
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Resilience in Development
Resilience is the capacity for positive adaptation in significant adversity. This chapter covers the central concepts of resilience research in developmental science, and describes the fundamental…
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Resilience in individual development: Successful adaptation despite risk and adversity: Challenges and prospects
Resilience and development: Contributions from the study of children who overcome adversity
Abstract This article reviews the research on resilience in order to delineate its significance and potential for understanding normal development. Resilience refers to the process of, capacity for,…
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Developmental cascades: linking academic achievement and externalizing and internalizing symptoms over 20 years.
TLDR
A developmental cascade model linking competence and symptoms was tested in a study of a normative, urban school sample of 205 children and indicated externalizing problems evident in childhood appeared to undermine academic competence by adolescence, which subsequently showed a negative effect on internalizing problems in young adulthood.
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Resilience in children threatened by extreme adversity: Frameworks for research, practice, and translational synergy
  • A. Masten
  • Psychology
    Development and Psychopathology
  • 18 April 2011
TLDR
The concluding section on translational synergy discusses the potential for a synthesis of basic and applied resilience frameworks as the next steps toward realizing the original objective and promise of resilience science.
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Global perspectives on resilience in children and youth.
TLDR
Progress and issues in research that aims to understand variations in human adaptation to adverse experiences are highlighted, and developmental scientists are urged to engage in international efforts to promote resilience.
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